In the case of pc platforms like GOG, and itchio, if you get a drm free version of a title, theres nothing the company can do to both stop you from storing it on an external storage (or multiple) if you wanted. They wouldnt be able to revoke it if its a single player game.
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shrugal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We need to top calling it digital “ownership”. You don’t get to own anything as a customer on those platforms.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Syrc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Technically, you still don’t own it. You have a licence that they can revoke at will. They just can’t enforce it.
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
What makes you say so?
GoG about page explicitly talks about owning, and terms even explicitly mention advance notification so you can download Dr free versions if they will ever become unavailable.
GoG terms do not qualify purchases as temporary access licenses - only to the degree of servicing downloads as long as possible and without other limitation.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know that’s the exception to the general trend though right? GoG has good terms, most others do not.
Physical media still is a better way to go than digital whenever possible.
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
because rights that can be taken away on a whim are no rights at all
They’re rights to temporary access.
I agree with your main point that it’s not ownership though.
shrugal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What you’re talking about is being allowed to use something or being tolerated, that’s different from having a right.
ultra@feddit.ro 1 year ago
If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.
obamabinladen@fanaticus.social 1 year ago
It never was
shrugal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Arr-men to that!
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Whatsab!